[46] Amos, vii. 14.
[47] Isa. i. 11-18; Jer. vii. 21-23.
[48] Dutch, zelfstandigheid, literally, self-existence; without an equivalent, as far as I know, in vernacular English.—Tr.
[49] Zelfstandigheid, again, expressing objective existence, reality, independent of subjective thought or feeling.—Tr.
[50] Jer. xxxi. 31, et seq; Isa. ii. 2-4; Amos, ix. 12; Isa. xxv. 6; lii. 15; lvi. 6, 7; lxvi. 23; Zech. viii. 23; xiv. 9, 16.
[51] Isa. liii.
[52] Job i, ii.—Tr.
[53] The most original sources of the Christian religion are the Synoptic Gospels, in which, however, criticism must distinguish between the older and later portions. The fourth Gospel is marked by a more profound speculation upon the person and the work of Christ, by which the Christian mind freed itself entirely from the Jewish forms in which Jesus, as a popular teacher in Israel, had set forth his doctrine.